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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarauderX" data-source="post: 637323" data-attributes="member: 9990">Mad Max comes to mind for me whenever Dark Sun is brought up.  I like the idea of a jungle-like world, with no urban society to speak of.  I like what you have so far, and it inspired me to write since now I may do something similiar, only all based on 3E instead of revising the mechanics of the game.For jungle settings or adventures in my campaigns I like to use fear of the unknown as a major motivator to scare characters.  Your setting would lend to some great original thinking if you let it go to fruition, and players would second guess the abilities of anything they run into.  For me, it put a hold on the meta-game thinking of "The DM won't have me encounter anything that we couldn't handle."  Just to add on to what you had, I was thinking that the societies that formed would be only as big as tribes, either nomadic (Mongols without horses?) or in very defensible terrain.  Perhaps the people move with the food source, or perhaps the races ARE the food source for something more hideous, but something usually has to drive the nomadic hunter-gathers.  Using something like this lets the lone wolf players find an occassional respite from the vast outside, plus each encounter could be with different NPCs, where characters that share information that could be helpful or harmful to another race (i.e. don't follow the river to the south unless you want to be eaten by dinosaurs.)  It could also be a goal for the characters to be the first to set up a new organized realm by leading some tribes to an unspoiled land... and so on.  Some questions I would ask were I a PC might be:How many people are there in a tribe, how far is it to the nearest village/tribe?What do the people do for food?  Shelter?  Transportation?How does trade work?  Is there a common language for most human/other tribes?Will everyone need to max out their wilderness lore?</blockquote>

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